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Bring your own ReadLine

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell

Research direction

Start with EditorServicesConsolePSHostUserInterface.cs at the linked ReadLine implementation and trace how host options are configured. Check where a -UseUnderlyingHostReadline switch would be declared and passed, then verify that enabling it uses the underlying host UI's ReadLine while the default behavior remains unchanged.

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Description

Area-ReadLine Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

The Problem

I am unable to create a web based script editor with a terminal because both PSReadline and LegacyReadLine ultimately call Console.GetKey and Console.Write, causing the input and output to be mapped to the calling process’s Console.

Suggested Fix

Add a -UseUnderlyingHostReadline switch and change the following code:

** https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices/blob/bd34695f31eebe8eaea5523a13a754da548153f5/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Services/PowerShell/Host/EditorServicesConsolePSHostUserInterface.cs#L86**

To call _underlyingHostUI.ReadLine() if -UseUnderlyingHostReadline is specified

Dominant language
C#
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Avg merge
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